Chris Bowman

Bowman elected to National Academy of Inventors

Jan. 9, 2017

Professor Christopher Bowman has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2016. The designation recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated "a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society," according...

Bobby Braun

Braun brings cachet as new dean of the college of engineering

Jan. 3, 2017

Clare Wise

Alumna Clare Wise wins Pac-12 Leadership Award

Dec. 6, 2016

Recent graduate Clare Wise has won the Pac-12 Leadership Award and a $3,000 postgraduate scholarship. Wise, who graduated in spring 2016 with a degree in chemical engineering, also was a member of the CU Boulder alpine ski team and served as co-chair of the Pac-12 Student-Athlete Leadership Team. The award...

Sensor size of a penny

Tiny electronic device can monitor heart, recognize speech

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University have developed a tiny, soft and wearable acoustic sensor that measures vibrations in the human body, allowing them to monitor human heart health and recognize spoken words. The stretchable device captures physiological sound signals from the body, has physical properties...

Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering / University of Colorado Boulder

CU Boulder to lead $15.3 million initiative for sustainable water and sanitation for development

The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in the developing world. Globally, more than 2.4 billion people lack access to...

MARS

MARS series debuts with CU connection

National Geographic will debut its six-part miniseries MARS on Nov. 14, and the fascinating docudram a has a CU Boulder connection. Incoming engineering dean and aerospace professor Bobby Braun served as a technical consultant for the show over the past year, working with the writers, producers, director, set designers and...

Lockheed Marting Group

Lockheed Martin internship gives engineering student a taste of production process

Interns are getting remarkable firsthand opportunities to make an impact at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Andrew Wylde, a CU Boulder intern working in the microelectronics assembly area of the RF Payload Center of Excellence , was able to successfully tune a low noise amplifier (LNA) hybrid – a microelectronic...

Bernard Amadei

Engineers Without Borders Founder named CU Distinguished Professor

Nov. 22, 2016

When Bernard Amadei, professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, took a group of students to a rural village in Belize to install a water pump in 2001, he had no intention of founding Engineers Without Borders USA or developing a curriculum for engineering in developing communities at CU Boulder...

Wearable Technology

Wearable Technology: Path to a Patent

Halley Profita and Dana Hughes could have spent spring break playing outside. Both were drawn to Colorado’s outdoor activities when choosing CU-Boulder for their doctoral studies. Hughes and his wife like mountain biking; Profita and her boyfriend enjoy hiking Colorado’s lofty peaks. But these computer scientists spent their 2014 break...

Mark Borden

New 'microbubble' technology could save lives on battlefield, home front

A new technology now under development by researchers at the University of Nebraska and the University of Colorado Boulder could result in the creation of a so-called “third lung” for severely injured patients that could keep them alive until arrival at a hospital.

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